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Apple Watch new feature can identify irregular heart rhythms

December 13, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">The Apple Watch is one of the most popular timepieces of this era due to its slick design and nifty features.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A new development has made it even more enticing to the public, as Apple launched a new app that will allow the company to gather irregular heart rhythm data from the watches’ heart rate sensors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dubbed as The Apple Heart Study app, the extremely helpful feature will be able to detect irregularities and send notifications to watch owners who may be unknowingly suffering from atrial fibrillation (AFib).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The medical initiative was first launched last September as part of the watchOS 4, The Verge reports.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In partnership with experts from Stanford University, Apple hopes to collect heart rate data, which could further aid patients, doctors, and researchers to detect and cure heart irregularities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Working alongside the medical community, not only can we inform people of certain health conditions, we also hope to advance discoveries in heart science,” Apple’s chief operating officer, Jeff Williams, said in a statement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heart rate is measured by green LED lights flashing hundreds of times per second, as well as photodiodes, which monitor the amount of blood flowing through the wrists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moreover, Apple Watch users who took part in the survey will be notified through their devices if an irregular heartbeat is detected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who will be flagged will also receive free consultation with a study doctor and an electrocardiogram (EKG) patch for further observation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As of wiring, the app is available only in the US App store and accepts users 22 years or older. They must also possess an Apple Watch Series 1 or later model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source:<a href="http://technology.inquirer.net/69968/apple-watch-new-feature-can-identify-irregular-heart-rhythms#ixzz519800Qqh"> http://technology.inquirer.net/69968/apple-watch-new-feature-can-identify-irregular-heart-rhythms#ixzz519800Qqh </a></span><br />
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Smartphone and Game Console Technology for Health Tech Application

November 08, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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 <span style="font-size: large;">Duke University and Stanford University doctors and engineers are developing an ultrasound device that can be an equivalent of more expensive 3D imaging with just the addition of a chip that costs US$10.00</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Joshua Broder, MD, who is an associate professor and emergency physician at Duke Health, Durham, North Carolina, USA came up with the idea when he was playing the Nintendo Wii game console with his son.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Observing that  the Wii console was able to track the controller accurately, he concluded that the same principle can be done when a similar device can be “slaved” to a hand-held ultrasound probe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">When presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum in Washington, D.C., the innovation showed potential in emergency medicine applications.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">This device can be used in lieu of the more traditional MRI and CT Scan machines that cost five times than the ultrasound system being used.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The requirement that in order to generate a 3D image, there must be precise and accurate tracking and orientation of the ultrasound probe enables the “modified” probe to stitch hundreds of individual slices of the anatomy thus generating a 3D image.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The next step after a year was for Dr. Joshua Broder to bring his ideas to Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Together with undergraduate Matt Morgan and instructors and professors in biomedical engineering  Carl Herickhoff and Jeremy Dahl both of whom have since moved to Stanford University, the device is still being developed further. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The chip, the size of a fingernail is attached to an ultrasound probe and is connected to a laptop that has been inputted with a developed program for the device. In a matter of seconds, a 3D model is generated. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The device which is a standard ultrasound probe has the chip attached to it and is used in its regular way to generate the 3D image.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The prototypes were created at Duke University’s 3D printing laboratory. The next step is or trials to determine how best to use the device in patient care. Also, development is going further in enabling the device to adapt to other 3D imaging machines.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The device has good potential in generating 3D images where MRI and CT Scan devices are not available such as rural areas and in developing countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://surgery.duke.edu/faculty/joshua-seth-broder-md">https://surgery.duke.edu/faculty/joshua-seth-broder-md</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/how-10-microchip-can-turn-ultrasounds-high-powered-3d-image-machines">http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/how-10-microchip-can-turn-ultrasounds-high-powered-3d-image-machines</a></span><br />
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DOST Helps Valenzuela City Fight Malnutrition

October 25, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">BIGMO, a complementary food for children developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is set to lead the effort to alleviate child malnutrition in Valenzuela City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Department of Science and Technology – National Capital Region (DOST-NCR) established a facility in Valenzuela City that will produce the said complementary food for Valenzuela City’s children who are aged 5 years and below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The automated food production facility will be located at the Valenzuela City Polytechnic College (ValPoly).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The inauguration of the facility was led by DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Pena. The DOST’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute developed BIGMO that comes in 3 forms. BIGMO Curls, BIGMO ready-to-cook baby food, and BIGMO Instant Blend. This complementary food is aimed at addressing child malnutrition in Valenzuela City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Valenzuela City May Rexlon T. Gatchalian welcomed the DOST facility and it will dovetail with the city’s current barangay-based feeding program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although there are 4 other food production facilities in the country, The facility in Valenzuela is the first facility to be fully automated. This feature minimizes human contamination due to handling. The facility is also centrally controlled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The facility can process 120 kg of rice or mung beans per hour and that is 30 grams per sachet of BIGMO. Also, it is capable of processing rice and mung beans of up to 180 kg which can finish a daily production in two hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Various offices of DOST such as the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, Metals Industry Research and Development Institute, and the DOST-NCR– worked hand-in-hand with the Valenzuela City LGU, ValPoly, and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce Valenzuela Chapter. </span><br />
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WAH Initiative: Improving Local Healthcare

October 23, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">It is acknowledged that the public healthcare system in the rural areas of the country does not meet the need of the said population sector. The rural population accounts for 60% of the entire population of the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Local health governance is now being given the attention it has been needing. Using technology not available 10 years ago, access to quality health-related data by local health professionals, the local chief executives in the rural LGUs and policy makers will benefit from WAH. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Wireless Access for Health Initiative (WAH) is a result of a public-private partnership that goes back to the year 2009.  Currently, the WAH Initiative is partnered with over 100 Local Government Units (LGUs) and is involved in assisting the LGUs to improve and manage their local health units with the use of the WAH Digital Platform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">WAH consolidates process management innovations, wireless, mobile, and digital communications technologies that result in a clinic-centered health information platform that is used in Rural Health Units (RHUs) by health workers and professionals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">WAH is used to collate, store and transmit information from the RGHUs to their LGU Health Office and Provincial Health Office. The information and data is critical in the decision-making process of their LGUs and Provincial governments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aside from transmittal and storage of data, WAH is able to generate reports that are compliant with the format of the Department of Health (DOH).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This enables the decision makers to have accurate data for analyzing, evaluating and determining the healthcare requirements of their constituencies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Patient records are easily retrieved by healthcare professionals thus this speeds up the process of checking up and visiting patients resulting in more patients getting care.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Currently, the system has grown to 106 clinics in 65 municipalities, 4 cities, and 24 provinces across the Philippines six of which are Geographically  Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Using laptops, PDAs and Tablets, the WAH system is used in the collation of data, organizing data and even analysis. Patients are also given access to information, provides health and wellness related education.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The WAH Initiative recently won 3rd Place in the HealthTech Challenge competition held at the Asian Institute Of Management and was organized by the Swiss Embassy and the AIM in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Switzerland.</span><br />
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UP eyes PGH, cancer research institute in Quezon City

September 25, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">UP eyes PGH, cancer research institute in Quezon City</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">By: Janvic Mateo</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">University of the Philippines (UP) president Danilo Concepcion has bared plans to establish a medical complex in Quezon City that will feature a medical school, a second Philippine General Hospital (PGH) and a cancer research institute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During his investiture speech on Wednesday, Concepcion confirmed plans to establish a second PGH at the university’s flagship campus in Diliman, Quezon City. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He said the PGH will be part of the medical complex that will also include a college of medicine and the Genomic Cancer Research Institute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“This medical complex will serve the UP Diliman community and the north of Metro Manila. On the one hand, the College of Medicine will result in a substantial increase in the number of medical students we shall train to increase the number of doctors in our country,” Concepcion said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The Genomic Cancer Research Institute will focus on finding cures for cancer, using the science of genomics as a major tool,” he added. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The UP president said they conceive PGH-Diliman to be the most modern and well-equipped hospital in the country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“We believe that we can make this dream happen with your support and the help of our national and local governments,” he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The plan for the medical complex, including sources of funds, has yet to be finalized.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In his speech, Concepcion also bared other plans, including support for faculty, staff, and students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He also stressed the need to rehabilitate buildings in different campuses of the university. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“It entails the repair, restoration, and improvement of our buildings and dormitories. The time has come to put an end to the not-so-amusing joke that there is no clean or decent toilet in UP,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Concepcion also raised the possibility of implementing a return-service program for graduates, especially in light of the implementation of the free college tuition policy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“This return service will be for one year after graduation. Our graduates will be required to teach senior high school students in public high schools that we will identify as UP feeder schools. This scheme, we hope, will uplift the quality of the graduates from these feeder schools,” he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The return-service condition, however, will be voluntary. Any student may opt out from this condition before graduation by paying his tuition, or the cost of his education if he will opt out after graduation. The return service to be rendered by our graduates will not be for free. Our students who will decide to teach will be compensated properly,” he added. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Concepcion said they are very optimistic that the students will choose to render return service.</span><br />
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Hearing For Life

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<span style="font-size: large;">There are 8 babies that are born deaf every day in the Philippines according to a 2014 Census by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). 50% of cases of hearing loss are preventable, 32% due to cases of Rubella and 18% are caused by meningitis, infection, otitis media and ototoxicity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">8 to 40% of schoolchildren have some form of hearing loss and this is a real public health concern. The cost from Specialized Education, Specialized Care and loss of potential income during adulthood can be quantified at Php4.3 million pesos per child with deafness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is already a law, Republic Act 9709 that provides for Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (NHS), but less than 10% of babies are screened every year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are due to the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Limited number of facilities</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Limited number of audiologists</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lack of certified hearing screeners</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Patients do not return for follow ups</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Hearing for Life Project presents a solution that aims to address these problems. Increasing the rates of newborn screening utilizing Novel Technologies and Telehealth also known as HeLe is a collaboration by experts from institutions, biomedical device development, and eLearning both from the Philippines and California, USA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The HeLe Project objectives are to develop the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cost Effective hearing screening with telehealth capability for deployment in primary health care facilities and centers in the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Computer based training for health workers in remote and rural communities.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Telereferral system that connects the primary healthcare providers with specialists that will provide diagnostics and even hearing intervention services. This will enable the continuity of hearing care for Filipinos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This will build the capacities of primary health care centers in screening and proper treatment of Filipinos with hearing problems, especially children</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The HeLe projects is a collaboration between the Philippine National Ear Institute, University of California-Berkeley, UP Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute and the University of California-Davis and the UP National Telehealth Center.  </span><br />
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BNEFIT and HIM Leaders Unite to Reach 5000 Jobs in 2022

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<span style="font-size: large;">Various academe, government and industry leaders pledged their commitment to support the goal of Bacolod and Negros Occidental in creating at least 5,000 jobs in the healthcare information management (HIM) sector by 2022.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2014, the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology (BNEFIT) has set the goal to achieve at least 60,000 jobs in the ICT industry by 2022, including HIM jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 1st Bacolod Healthcare Information Management (HIM) Conference held last August 17 and 18, 2017  at SMX Convention Center – Bacolod successfully gathered local stakeholders to scale up the potential of the countryside in attracting HIM jobs, opportunities and investments, and bring everyone on the same page in the area of HIM education and training. The first day saw more than 300 students while the second day gathered leaders and executives from colleges universities and training institutions, medical and healthcare and IT companies, national and local government executives, real estate developers and other private-sector stakeholders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Maraňon, Jr. in his speech said the province is “at the threshold of a new beginning to expand and conquer another industry – the healthcare information management.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our joint target with BNEFIT for Bacolod and Negros Occidental is to successfully expand to three areas - software development, a creative process like game development and animation and in healthcare information management, Maraňon said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">BNEFIT Executive Director Jocelle Batapa-Sigue said of this target, 5,000 are targeted to be from the HIM sector which covers the whole spectrum of health services that require voice, non-voice, data analytics and information management such as medical coding and billing, and medical transcription, among others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Healthcare Information Management of the Philippines (HIMAP) Director Raymond Ang said the healthcare BPO market is projected to reach US$ 276.79 Billion by 2021 from US$170.47 Billion in 2016, growing at a CAGR of 10.2% during the forecast period from 2016 to 2021. In the Philippines, as of 2016, there are 118,000 workers in HIM and we the projected annual growth rate of 10 percent, the industry forecast is 210,000 jobs by 2022, Ang in his presentation said.  </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Judilyn Caňete, president of MedStar Philippines Healthcare Information Management, a New York based company which recently expanded to Bacolod encouraged the HIM conference delegates to concentrate on training and certifying the local workforce for medical coding and billing. She said her company is open to partnerships with schools on how to create scholarships for trainees in coding and billing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After his Manila site, Butch Valenzuela, president of Visaya KPO, is eyeing Bacolod as an expansion site for health-related voice BPO jobs. Valenzuela said the local stakeholders must develop its talent supply to address the requirements of the HIM industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary Monchito Ibrahim, in his keynote address, commended BNEFIT and the local stakeholders for anticipating and preparing for the growth of the HIM industry. He said stressed there is a need to change mindset especially in the minds of young people about how the business process outsourcing industry is moving towards high skilled jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The two-day event was organized by BNEFIT to explore potential synergies in creating innovative platforms for delivering global HIM services, discover the magic of HIM education to create jobs and investments for countryside development and create a conducive ecosystem for HIM jobs and investments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The roster of resources speakers includes Ibrahim, Caňete, Valenzuela, Ang, Sammy De Leon, president of SSP Virtual Assistants in Davao,  Zeno Martinez, publisher of TechBlade.PH, Jay Errol Aray, site director of Hinduja Global Solutions in Iloilo, Emmy Lou Versoza – Delfin, Director for Innovation of the DICT, Kristelle Lynne Ong, president of Philippine Call Center Institute, Vida Candida Arciaga,  Vice President for Human Resources of  XL Service Philippines, Diego Jose Ramos, President of Medical Tourism PH, Merle Salvani, Region 6 Governor of Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), Leif Brian Margallo,  Founder and CEO of Virtual Workforce Professionals, Inc., Levi Trio and Anthony Visitacion of Teleperformance and Dorothy Londres.</span><br />
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All Systems Go for the 1st Bacolod HIM Conference

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<span style="font-size: large;">Health Information Management (HIM) systems all lead to the 1st Bacolod Healthcare Information Management (HIM) Conference this August 17 – 18, 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The conference will highlight the stakeholders of HIM in Negros and aims to explore potential synergies in creating innovative platforms for delivering global HIM services; to discover the importance of HIM education to create jobs and investments for countryside development and to create a conducive ecosystem for HIM jobs and investments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The conference is being led The Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology (BNEFIT) together with Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and MedStar Philippines HealthCare Information Management Corporation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The conference will include resource persons from the various industries associated with HIM within Negros and other regional and national centers of the healthcare information systems sector.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">DICT Sec. Monchito Ibrahim, Raymond Ang of Edulynx, Butch Valenzuela of Visaya KPO, Lloyd Tronco of Medix and Judilyn Franco – Canete, President of Medstar Phils., among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The topics to be discussed and presented range from  Philippine HIM Industry Outlook to Synergies for HIM in the Countryside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aside from the topics to be presented, panel discussions will be at the forefront of the conference. 5 Panel discussions with 9 resource panelists will be conveying their assessments and insights during the panel discussions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Atty. Jocelle Batapa – Sigue, former NICP President, and Techblade Publisher Zeno Martinez will be among the panelists together with representatives from DICT and other industry stakeholders and partners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The conference is divided into 2 tracks, Student’s Track on August 17 and Professional’s Track on August 18. Track 1 is for graduating students from all medical, health and information technology (IT)-related courses. Track 2 on the second day, delegates including various officials from all the municipalities and cities in Negros Occidental, together with  Bacolod, top level executives from colleges, universities and training institutions, medical, healthcare and IT companies, national and local government executives, real estate developers and other private sector stakeholders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The National Telehealth Center (NTHC) commemorated its 19th Anniversary last July 27, 2017. The event included symposia on its advocacies, projects, and programs that utilize technology. These technologies help bring public health services to Filipinos that are otherwise unable to access such services due to barriers in distance and affordability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The NTHC continues to engage the people with regards to their healthcare needs by harnessing the power of technology. The current ubiquitous use of smartphones, tablets, laptops, computers, the internet, and other medical devices help bring healthcare to disadvantaged and remote Filipinos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This enhances the capabilities and capacities of public healthcare professionals in bridging the gap that is existing with regards to public healthcare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Program Areas of the NTHC’s eHealthcare are the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">eMedicine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This program gives assistance to the Department of Health (DOH) Doctors to the Barrios and Municipal Health Officers by providing e-Health Telemedicine tools so that health management of patients with special needs in healthcare can be serviced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is also the platform where Telereferrals are transmitted wherein experts will be available for diagnosis and treatment protocols needed by patients in remote and disadvantaged areas. This includes the RxBox program that was developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seminars, research, and training are provided to public health workers with regards to eHealth. Available innovative technologies are used so as to health information be available to the public and help in health care decision making and policies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) is a government Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system that has garnered awards and is now being fully used in Quezon City, Pasay City, and Navotas City.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This system gives Local Chief Executives (LCEs) data and information about their localities with regards to health indicators that will be important in their decision-makings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NTHC is at the forefront in formulating e-Health Policy Research and its advocacy is geared for enhanced multi-sectoral partnerships and collaboration.</span></div>
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19 Years of Empowering Communities Through eHealthcare

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Dengue Vector Surveillance Website

July 26, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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Medical Marijuana Amidst President Duterte's War On Drugs

July 24, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">President Rodrigo Duterte said he would not allow the legalization of marijuana, but he supports the use of medical marijuana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Medicinal marijuana – yes, because it is really an ingredient of modern medicine now,” Duterte told reporters. “There are medicines right now being developed or already in the market that contains marijuana as a component.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Duterte said he has seen its ill effects during his youth when his friends got high on marijuana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado in 2014 has sparked debates on whether to permit the use of the substance for health purposes in the Philippines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the same year, Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano III filed a bill allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who are in favor of the legalization of marijuana believe the substance can benefit patients who remain ill after trying all kinds of medicines and conventional treatments.  </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Department of Health as well as the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Health Research and Development also proposed that guidelines be put in place so that the government can make sure that medical cannabis use won’t be abused. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Albano remains optimistic that his proposal will finally be passed during the 17th Congress despite the president’s ongoing war on drugs. He thinks that Congress would be able to pass the measure so that thousands of Filipinos can be helped and find relief from debilitating conditions.</span><br />
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President Rodrigo Duterte said he would not allow the legalization of marijuana, but he supports the use of medical marijuana. “Medicinal marijuana – yes, because it is really an ingredient of modern medicine now,” Duterte told reporters. “There are…

RxBox gets Upgrade

July 21, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">During the 2017 National Science and Technology Week, the new RxBox was presented on exhibit. HealthTech.PH has already featured the RxBox in its publications before and the new RxBox is proof of the success it has been in the public health sector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RxBox is the result of the cooperation between the National Telehealth Center, The DOST and UP Diliman. According to Dr. Portial Marcelo, director of the National Telehealth Center, the RxVBox can also function as a diagnostic tool since it can monitor the patient’s  heart rate, pulse rate, blood and blood oxygenation. The RxBox enables remote consultations between patients, community health workers, and urban based experts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RxBox is deployed in remote rural communities and communities that have a high poverty incidence. This is very important to the public health sector since statistics cite that 60% of Filipinos die without seeing doctors and professional medical practitioners. This is more evident in remote rural areas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RXBox maximizes the capabilities of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) that is now more prevalent. Thus, the use of the RxBox has enabled accessibility to a wider range of Filipino citizens for their healthcare needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RxBox is deployed in 17 regions of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The presence of the RxBox in the recently concluded National Science and Technology Week brings to the fore the continued commitment of the various agencies involved in improving the public health services of the government.</span></div>
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New RXBox at the 2017 National Science and Technology Week During the 2017 National Science and Technology Week, the new RxBox was presented on exhibit. HealthTech.PH has already featured the RxBox in its publications before and the new RxBox is pro…

The Milestones Of Electronic Medical Record

July 20, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the earliest data processing systems originated in the mid 1960’s and focused specifically on clinical data management. As these systems (now known as hospital information systems) began to garner attention, the healthcare industry began to see the development of electronic medical record systems. The original systems were nowhere near as functional as modern methods of maintaining medical information. Also in the 1960’s, the development of the Problem Oriented Medical Record by Larry Weed introduced the idea of using electronic methods of recording patient information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shortly thereafter, in 1972, the first electronic medical record system was developed by the Regenstrief Institute. Although this technology was the first of its kind, due to high costs, the systems were not initially attractive to physicians and used instead by government hospitals and visionary institutions. Into the 1990’s, personal computers were becoming more affordable and the Internet emerged. These innovations allowed for faster, easier access to information and the introduction of health information online – setting the stage for web-based EMR’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1991, the Institute of Medicine made the case that by the year 2000, each physician’s office should be using computers in their practice in order to improve patient care. Although it was not turned into law, the Institute did provide a variety of recommendations to achieve that goal. As the emergence of EMR’s continued, there were also adjustments made to the rules and regulations surrounding privacy and confidentially of medical records. In 1996 the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was introduced in response to growing issues facing healthcare coverage, privacy and security in the United States. To follow disclosure and confidentiality regulations included in HIPPA, organizations have begun to shift to electronic systems to comply with these laws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the emergence of web-based software in the early 2000’s the need for electronic medical record systems to be developed through remotely-hosted systems became evident. The ability to access information remotely or store on a remote-system, made the electronic method of keep records more appealing and ultimately more affordable for physicians to implement into their practice. During President George W. Bush’s time in the Oval Office, the budget for healthcare IT projects was doubled; a new sub-cabinet position of National Health Information Coordinator was created, as well as the call for an industry-wide adoption of electronic health record systems by 2014. This mandate has been supported by President Obama as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a piece of legislation aimed at directing additional funding and incentives to healthcare professionals who adopt these electronic medical systems and follow the concept of “meaningful use” by the year 2014.</span></div>

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Are Privacy Concerns A Threat To Electronic Medical Record?

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<span style="font-size: large;">Doctors are supposed to be nosy. It's not just that they examine your naked body inside and out and record all its imperfections. Physicians are trained to peer into your life, past and present, and ask all sorts of sensitive, if not uncomfortable, questions. Have you ever used marijuana or cocaine? How about steroids? How many sexual partners? Ever had a sexually transmitted disease? An abortion? Had sex with the same sex? How much do you smoke or drink? Have you used Botox or had plastic surgery? Have you been depressed or been treated for mental illness? And how about your marriage—or marriages?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You get the gist; the experience is intrusive. But the doctor-patient relationship was never meant to be other than confidential and privileged and solely for the benefit of the patient. Patients expect it, or they would not be forthcoming. And doctors take the Hippocratic oath, pledging to hold sacred their patients' secrets. This pledge of confidentiality, however, is now challenged by a world where computers rule and health information falls into many hands. One might well ask whether medical privacy is just too outmoded a concept for today's information-hungry world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Most of us are aware that the risk to privacy of any information increases exponentially with each additional person whom we tell. This is especially true for electronic communication. Social networking members, who have shared what they thought was private information with “friends,” have too often found that the information is now accessible far beyond what they ever imagined; now it is permanently engraved in cyberworld. These observations rightly raise concerns when information in a medical record is involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">People are asking whether any kind of electronic records can be made safe. If one is looking for a 100% privacy guarantee, the answer is no. But then, paper records are not 100% secure either. There have been cases where paper medical records, especially parts of them, have disappeared. There was a case where boxes of patient records from a doctor’s office were found in a garbage dumpster and a case in which stolen medical records were recently found washed up on a Maine shore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a hospital unit, a patient’s paper record (chart) is often available to anyone with a white coat, a badge that looks like the identification badge of the agency, and the courage to pick up the chart. With an electronic record, it is more difficult for an unauthorized person to gain access to a healthcare record. To do so a person needs more than a white coat and a badge; the person also needs a login name and a password. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To answer the question posed by the title, despite opposition from those who have a vested interest in not having an EHR, or even an EMR, such as drug companies whose drugs are creating previously uncovered side effects, or agencies that make money by repeating lab tests, electronic health records are a plus. This does not mean that efforts to protect healthcare data should be lessened. It does mean that we need to acknowledge the considerable progress already made in protecting healthcare data and the progress that will continue to be made. No, the records will never be 100% safe; but the benefits outweigh the risks, and no information, once shared, is ever 100% safe from disclosure.</span></div>

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